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Engineering Librarian

About this Guide

The engineering literature is diverse and extensive. The follow is an overview of the major categories of literature as well as examples of each category which are available at Notre Dame or through the web.

Engineering Books and Ebooks

Books

The Classic Catalog lists all books, journal and newspaper titles, videos, etc. in the Hesburgh Libraries (excluding the Law Library).

CatalogPlus lists all books, journal and newspaper titles, videos, etc. in the Hesburgh Libraries, the Kresge Law Library, and the Saint Marys, Holy Cross College, and Bethel College libraries.

WorldCat Over 125 million bibliographic records of any type of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries

Engineering Articles

Articles- Find articles in databases devoted to the scientific literature

ND's QuickSearch- Engineering allows you to search across multiple databases simultaneously. If you don't know where to begin, this is a good place to start. Once you find a database that is providing results that really seem on target, it is best to use that database by itself, rather than through QuickSearch.

Google Scholar use this proxied link on or off campus to get full text access to any articles licensed for ND users.

Here is a list of scholarly academic databases that you can search individually.

BibTeX

BibTeX is an open source tool and file format that works in conjunction with LaTeX documents (used in math and science). BibTeX was created for use with LateX software, but now compatabile with other software. Widely used in math, science and engineering. More help can be found at the MIT Libguide RefWorks with LaTeX and BibTex.

Technical Reports

arXiv.org E-Print Archive http://arxiv.org/Formerly known as the Los Alamos (LANL) e-Print archive. E-prints/pre-prints in the fields of Physics, Mathematics, Nonlinear Sciences, and Computer Science. Provides for rapid dissemination of results through direct submission of e-prints by authors.

GreyNet International Grey Literature is a field in library and information science that deals with the production, distribution, and access to multiple document types produced on all levesl of government, academics, business, and organizations in electronic and print formats not controlled by commercial publishing i.e. where publishing is not the primary activity of the producing body.

NSCEP/NEPIS - EPA's Gateway to Free Digital & Paper Publications http://www.epa.gov/nscep/ This site is EPA's premier site for accessing EPA publications, with more than 7,000 in stock and 31,000 digital titles, free of charge.

NTIShttp://www.ntis.gov/search/index.aspxThe NTIS website allows you to search and order technical reports online. Items available include technical reports, CD-ROMs, datafiles, videotapes, and audiocassettes. The National Technical Information Service is the official source for U.S. scientific, technical, engineering, and business-related information.

RAND Abstractshttp://www.rand.org/pubs/online.htmlRAND is a non-profit institution that helps improve policy and decision making through research and analysis. It publishes the results of research on issues relating to the national security and public involving most of the major disciplines of the physica, social, and biological sciences.

Science Accelerator http://www.scienceaccelerator.gov/ Developed by the Department of Energy's Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), in collaboration with DOD/DTIC, NASA, and EPA, the GrayLIT Network is a portal for technical report information generated through federally funded research and development projects.

Virtual Technical Reports Center – University of Maryland Institutions listed here provide either full-text reports, or searchable extended abstracts of their technical reports on the World Wide Web. This site contains links to technical reports, preprints, reprints, dissertations, theses, and research reports of all kinds.

Aerospace

NACA Digital Libraryhttp://naca.larc.nasa.gov/The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) was the predecessor to NASA. Bibliographic citations to all NACA reports from 1921 to 1958, plus full-text access to a growing number of items can be searched at the NTRS. (see next entry)

NASA Spinoff Databasehttp://spinoff.nasa.gov/index.htmlA service of the Technology Transfer Office, this database will help you find products and services that incorporate NASA technology in such areas as environment, public safety, transportation, computer technology, and industrial productivity. Citations refer to the date of the publication, page number, the center responsible for the technology, and the original NASA program in which the technology was developed.

NTRS: NASA Technical Reports Serverhttp://ntrs.nasa.govThe NASA Technical Reports Server provides researchers access to the documents in NASA's Scientific and Technical Information (STI) Program. These include research reports, journal articles, conference and meeting papers, technical videos, mission-related operational documents, and preliminary data. NTRS also collects scientific and technical information from sites external to NASA to broaden the scope of information available to users. NTRS's Simple Search searches for NASA information only and its Advanced Search can search for NASA and non-NASA information.

Civil Engineering

ASCE Civil Engineering Database Search this database to find information in all areas of Civil Engineering in journals, conference proceedings, books, standards, manuals, magazines, and newsletters that are published by the ASCE.

Transportation Research Board's Research in Progress (RiP) DatabaseThe RiP database contains over 8400 current or recently completed transportation research projects. Most of the RiP records are projects funded by Federal and State Departments of Transportation. University transportation research is also included. The RiP Database now serves as a clearinghouse of University Transportation Centers ongoing research.

TRID OnlineTRID is a newly integrated database that combines the records from TRB's Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) Database and the OECD's Joint Transport Research Centre’s International Transport Research Documentation (ITRD) Database. TRID provides access to over 900,000 records of transportation research worldwide.

Computer Science and Engineering

The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographieshttp://liinwww.ira.uka.de/bibliography/index.htmlThis is a collection of bibliographies of scientific literature in computer science from various sources, covering most aspects of computer science. The about 1200 bibliographies are updated monthly from their original locations such that you'll always find the most recent versions here.

Computing Research Repository (CoRR) http://www.acm.org/corr/An online repository for computing research and reports. This repository is a cooperative venture of the ACM, the Los Alamos e-Print archive, and NCSTRL.

NCSTRL - Networked Computer Science Technical Reports Libraryhttp://www.ncstrl.org/NCSTRL (pronounced "ancestral") is an international collection of computer science technical reports from CS departments and industrial and government research laboratories. The NCSTRL collection is distributed among a set of interoperating servers operated by participating institutions. You may search for and access documents from the distributed collection.

Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) http://www.osti.gov/home/The mission of the Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) is to advance science and sustain technological creativity by making R&D findings available and useful to Department of Energy (DOE) researchers and the public

Science Accelerator http://www.scienceaccelerator.gov/ Developed by the Department of Energy's Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), in collaboration with DOD/DTIC, NASA, and EPA, the GrayLIT Network is a portal for technical report information generated through federally funded research and development projects.

Nuclear Engineering

INIS DATABASEThe International Nuclear Information System database contains over 3 million bibliographic records and almost 200,000 full-text nonconventional documents, consisting of scientific and technical reports and other non-copyrighted information on the peaceful uses of nuclear science and technology. It is a product of the International Atomic Energy Agency

Los Alamos Technical Reports site -- In 2002, the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) terminated public access to thousands of unclassified reports on nuclear science and technology. Fortunately, almost all of the withdrawn reports were acquired and preserved so that the public has access to them.

Standards and Codes

What is a Standard?

A standard is a document that establishes a rule or measure (either minimum or optimum) for quality or level of performance. A standard can be produced and/or adopted by national standards organizations, professional associations or societies, international standards organizations, or private companies. Most standards owned by Hesburgh Libraries are in the Engineering Library. Ask at the Engineering Library reference desk for assistance in finding a particular standard. The standards in the Engineering Library collection and the web resources listed are primarily engineering related.

Where do I search to find out if there is a standard on my topic?

ASTM Standards Electronic edition of nearly every ASTM book, paper, or chapter from nearly every piece of work published by ASTM. The new ASTM Digital Library provides over 30,000 papers and chapters and more than 400,000 pages of information in a self-service environment."--ASTM home page. Access info: Select "Standards and Engineering Digital Library" then click "Yes, I agree with the License".The ASTM 2009 Annual Book Standards is available in the Engineering Library Reference (TA 401 .Am35sb). Older editions of the ASTM Annual Book of Standards are available for check out.

Department of Energy Techincal Standards - "The DOE Technical Strandards Program promotes the use of voluntary consensus standards at DOE, manages and facilitates DOE's efforts to develop and maintain necessary technical standards, and communicates information on technical standards activities to people who develop or use technical standards in DOE."

IEEE-Standards and Draft Standards Association and standards developed in conjunction with or dually approved by other standards organizations are available through IEEE and includes ANSI/IEEE standards, ANSI standards, AIEE standards and IEEE Draft Standards.

IETFInternet Engineering Task Force is a large open international community of network designers, operators, vendors, and researchers concerned ... [more]

NISO Standards provides access to downloadable texts of current and draft standards for information coding and exchange, as well as links to standards maintenance organizations and related resources.

What if the Hesburgh Libraries do not have a standard that I need?If you are a current Notre Dame faculty, staff, student or affiliate, the Hesburgh Libraries will order newer standards as needed. Contact: Engineering Librarian, Carol Brach, (631-5070) brach.10@nd.edu

Blanket term for conference proceedings, technical reports, and other literature types as described above which are not produced via conventional publishing channels.

All nature of engineering applications

Traditionally has not been systematically cataloged, archived, or digitalized by publishers and requires diligence to locate, particularly for documents published prior to the late 1990s.Includes some of the most detailed and valuable sources for engineers.